CxC Ep26: There’s no AI Strategy Without A Data Strategy

CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 26 features our friend Jeff Hollan, Former Head of Cortex AI Agents and Snowflake Intelligence. Jeff led the product strategy for Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex Agents, Cortex Analyst, and Cortex Search. These core components of Snowflake Cortex AI empower developers, engineers, and data scientists to build powerful AI apps and agents alongside the world’s data and unlock insights with natural language.  Prior to Snowflake, Jeff was Head of Product for Microsoft Azure’s PaaS and Serverless portfolio, where he was responsible for some of the most used and highest growth services in Azure, such as Azure Functions, Container Apps, App Services, and Static Web Apps.  . Our 26th episode focuses on: → Snowflake’s goal to democratize AI for the enterprise  → Should everyone be building AI solutions? → Snowflake Intelligence is GA - what is it, how is it different from traditional BI or copilots → Who is the operational user in the future for Snowflake → What it’s like to lead development of Snowflake Intelligence and Jeff’s learnings → Snowflake’s incorporation of AI into their own products → Snowflake recently announced $200 million partnership expansion with Anthropic. → The Arctic research team at Snowflake and their involvement with SLMs → Multimodal AI, interoperable agents and the future of enterprise AI → Snowflake vs. Databricks Be sure to follow us to get the latest information, and schedule a meeting with us through www.codestrap.com! Snowflake Website: https://www.snowflake.com/en/ Cortex: https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/snowflake-computing/ CodeStrap Dorian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorian-smiley-97a72a14/ Connor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connordeeks/ CodeStrap (X): https://x.com/CodeStrap411 CodeStrap (LI): https://www.linkedin.com/company/codestrap